Furring and fastening device



Nov. 15, 1927.

1,649,625 J. L. SULLIVAN FURRING AND FASTENING DEVICE Filed Feb. 15. 1926 IN V EN TOR. Lib/#7 A. Mum/7.

ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 15, 1927.

UNITED STA TES PATENT O FFlCE-.'

JOHN L. SULLIVAN, 0F BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

I'URRING AND FASTENING DEVICE.

Application filed February mally held to resist removal therefrom and is arranged to cooperate with a. projection on the latter whereby the netting wire may be gripped and held between such projection. and the spacer after the device has been driven into position.

.An object of the invention is to provide the device with. a sheet metal spacing member which will not become loosened on the fastening member in the handling of the device. 7

Another object of theinvent-io-n is to provide a spacer for the device which when operatively disposed will present a .mini mum interference to the keying of the plaster about the wire in the area of the device, and which at the same time will normally neither out the netting wire nor injure the surface of the wall in the applicationof the device.

A further object of the invention is to providethe device with a spacer having the foregoing advantages and which will not spread or flatten on the Wall when forced thereagainst.

The invention possesses otherob'jects and features of advantage, some of which, with the foregoing, will be set forth in the following description of the preferred form of my invention which is illustrated in the drawings accompanying and forming part the specification. It is to beunderstood that i do not limit myself to the showing made by the said drawings and description, as I may adopt variations of the preferred form within the scope of my invention as set forth in the claims.

Referring to said drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view ofone embodimentof my invention. a 1

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device.

More particularly the device is, embraced in my Reissue erably 15, 1926. Serial No. 88,232.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of a! wall fragment showing devlces positioned thereon both before and after being driven in final position. Figure the device, taken through the fastener and spacer.

Figures 5 modified forms of the device.

In the embodiment of my invention as illustrated in Figures 1 to 4, the device comprises a fastening member 6, which for simplicity of construction and cheapness of cost, may be in. the form of an ordinary nail having the usual shank 7,pointed end 8, and head 9. Associated with thefastener 6 is a spacing member 12 which is arranged to be normally carried by thefastener so that the fastener and spacer 1nay be handled as a unit. The spacer is preferably formed of a sheet metal blank which is folded upon itself to define'opposed body portions 13 and 14:. Formed in the spacer blank is an opening 16which is located at the fold and positioned mediately of the side edges 17 and 18 of said port-ions.

, The fastener member 6 passes throughthe opening 16 and between the opposed portions of the spacer, the pointed end 8 being as here shown disposed adjacent the open end 19 of the spacer. The portions 13 and 1 1 are arranged to resiliently and frictionally bear against the sidesof the shank prefother,

from one endof the spacer to the and the portion of the portions at 4; is a transverse sectionalview of and 6 are perspective views of the end 19 are arranged to engage the tapered sides21 of the end 8 of the fastener. With the spacer portions thus gripping the shank, longitudinal spacer 011 the ping of the former toward he displacement of the fastener, particularly the sliphead 9, will be effectlvely resisted when the device is being handled, .while on the otherhand, when the device is being driven into position the spacer will readily slide on the shank.

Means are also formed on the spacer for preventing the shank, during the from moving into obliquity with the device,

handling of the spacer especially in the plane of the body portions 13 and 14..

As here shown, each lindrical ing or flattening during the application of the device.

The portions 13 andlle, as showniin Figs ures 1 and 2, are provided at the open end 19 of the spacer, with flanges23 mid -.24 which extend outwardly at approximately right angles to the shank. These flanges provide fiat. bearing; surfaces for engagement with the surface. of the wall and prevent mutilation oh the latter by the spacer when the spacer is forced thereagainst.

In the application of thedevice the spacer is insertedv between the wall 26 or building paper 27 and the reenforcing netting 28, the s acer beingpreferably so held that one of tie wire strands 29 of the netting williseat in the depression 31 naturally formed in the folded end of the spacer by reason of the distended portions 22. The fastener is then driven home and the netting wire will be firmly gripped between thespacer and the head, the latter now functioning as a wireengaging, element. It is to be particularly noted that although. the portions 13 and 14 are drawn closely together andto the shank and thereby rendering the spacer quite thin, the folded anddistended portion of the spacer is presented to the netting wire and no shearing of the. wire betweenthe spacer andhead will take place.

In. the embodiment of the invention shown in Figure 5, the hearing flange of one body member 131 is omitted. In Figure 6 the spacer is likewise shown with one 01 the flanges removed, however, the flange 24: which is retained, is bent to extend under the member 13' from which the flange has been omitted,and yfurthermore said flange is perforated. for the reception of the shank.

I cl ainr:

1. In a. device of the character described, an oblong strip of sheet metal having parallel. side edges, arcuated. centrally in cross sectionand foldedtogether longitudinally substantially equi-distant from its ends, thereby forming a spacing element comprising a central cylindrical portion having on opposite sides projecting web portions, and a driven element projecting. axially through saidmylindrical portion, said. driven element having a head atits upper end adapted to engage and bindr a lath wire on the spacing element adjacentthe intersection of said cyportion and one of said web portions.

2; In; a device of the character described. a spacing, elementi formedof a strip of. flat metal folded together longitudinally thereby forming a pair of lath supporting sections, each of said sections having a recess formed in its upper end intermediate its side edges, thereby forming lath retaining projections and lath seats therebetween, and a cooperating nail projecting.vertically through said spacing; element between said supporting members, said nail having a head themargin of which extending outwardly beyond the sides as said supporting members but not extending to the side edges thereof, said head adapted to op'eratively engage and bind a lath wire on one of said lath seats intermediate one of said lath seats intermediate one of saidprojections and the body portion ofsaid nail.

wire fastener comprising, a spacing element formed of an oblong; strip of that I'll metalfolded. together longitudinally, therea by formingapair of lath supporting members disposed in parallelisn1,a verticall extending groove formed on theinner si e of each otsaid 1nembers, thereby forming, generally a cylindricalopening extendingsuh stantially from the top to the bottom of the spacing element between said members, the side edges of said grooves terminating short of the side edges of said members, and a driven element projecting through said grooves and engaging opposite sides thereof substantially throughout their len ths for holding said driven element in suite 'le axial alignment with the spacing element.

4. A nail, a lath supporting section disposed in-a plane extending through said nail and having an intermediate portion bent to extend. around one side thereof and hearing thereagainst, and a lath supporting section disposed in a plane extending through said nail and having an intermediate portion bent to extend around the other side thereof and bearing thereagainst, said sections integrally connected together at registering ends, said nail and said sections adapted to coach for binding a lath wire therehetween for attachingit to a su iyport outstandingly therefrom.

5. A wire fastener comprising, a spacing element formed of a strip oi flat metal doubled together flat ways and provided with a central concavo-convex groove, thereby forming? a pair of lath sup orting sections disposed in parallelism and having a nail opening extending therebetween, and a cooperating nail projecting through said opening and bearinm against the sides thereofto resist removalt erefroin, said sections adapt ed to enact for engaging and holding a lath wire in spaced relation with a support.

6. In a device of the character described, an oblong strip of sheet metal havingparallel side edges, arena-ted centrally incross section and folded together longitudinally substantially equi-distant from its ends, thereby forming a spacing element comprisinga central cylindrical portion having on opposite sides projecting web portions, and a driven spacing element having a flat bearing porelement projecting axially through said cytion at its lower end extending substantially lindrical portion, said driven element having at right angles. 10 a head at its upper end adapted to engage In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set and bind a lath Wire on the spacing element my hand at Oakland, California, this 4th adjacent the intersection of said cylindrical day of February, 1926. portion and one of said Web portions, said JOHN L: SULLIVAN. 

